Specimen Handling

"Specimen Handling" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Procedures for collecting, preserving, and transporting of specimens sufficiently stable to provide accurate and precise results suitable for clinical interpretation.

Descriptor ID	D013048
MeSH Number(s)	E01.370.225.998 E05.200.998
Concept/Terms	Specimen Handling Specimen Handling Handling, Specimen Handlings, Specimen Specimen Handlings Specimen Collection Specimen Collection Collection, Specimen Collections, Specimen Specimen Collections

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Specimen Handling".

Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment [E]
Diagnosis [E01]
Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures [E01.370]
Clinical Laboratory Techniques [E01.370.225]
Specimen Handling [E01.370.225.998]
Investigative Techniques [E05]
Clinical Laboratory Techniques [E05.200]
Specimen Handling [E05.200.998]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Specimen Handling".

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Bar chart showing 40 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2006 and 2015 and 2021

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2002	0	3	3
2004	0	1	1
2005	0	1	1
2006	3	1	4
2007	0	1	1
2008	1	0	1
2009	0	1	1
2010	1	1	2
2012	1	0	1
2013	0	1	1
2014	3	0	3
2015	3	1	4
2016	0	3	3
2017	1	0	1
2018	2	1	3
2020	0	2	2
2021	0	4	4
2022	0	1	1
2024	1	2	3

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Broach J, Achenbach C, Behar S, O'Connor L, Tarrant S, Ferranto J, Wright C, Hartin P, Orwig T, Nanavati J, Kalibala B, Woods K, Shaw B, Flahive J, Barton B, Hafer N, Herbert C, Fahey N, Gibson L, Simin K, Kowalik T, Ward DV, Mirza AW, Murphy RL, Caputo M, Buchholz B, Fantasia H, Koren A, Marchand L, Oludare S, Sogade F, Ritland D, Davis C, Grenier A, Baron C, Brent E, McKenney JB, Elder N, Michaels L, Ferrara L, Theron G, Palmer Z, Levy B, Daly J, Parang K, Schmidt M, Buxton D, Heetderks W, Manabe YC, Soni A, McManus D. Design, creation, and use of the Test Us Bank (TUB) COVID-19 sample biorepository. BMC Infect Dis. 2024 Nov 12; 24(1):1282.

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MacDonald EA, Katz EL, Pearson TF, Harris JE. Performing Suction Blister Skin Biopsies. Curr Protoc. 2024 Jun; 4(6):e1073.

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Condoluci C, Palmirotta R, Lawrence JB, Smith KP, Casini AR, Di Girolamo G, Majolini LA, Valente MG, Spila A, Miele C, Ferroni P, Guadagni F. Establishment of a Biorepository for Down Syndrome: Experience of the Inter-Institutional Multidisciplinary BioBank - BioBIM. Discov Med. 2024 May; 36(184):913-922.

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Harris CK, Pyden A, Onken AM, Yarsky B, Hayne C, Glickman J, Heher YK. Prioritizing Patient Safety and Minimizing Waste: Institutional Review of Cases and a Proposed Process for Designing a Surgical Pathology Gross-Only Examination Policy. Am J Clin Pathol. 2022 11 03; 158(5):598-603.

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Pollock NR, Berlin D, Smole SC, Madoff LC, Brown C, Henderson K, Larsen E, Hay J, Gabriel S, Gawande AA, Lennon NJ. Implementation of SARS-CoV2 Screening in K-12 Schools Using In-School Pooled Molecular Testing and Deconvolution by Rapid Antigen Test. J Clin Microbiol. 2021 08 18; 59(9):e0112321.

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Shan D, Johnson JM, Fernandes SC, Suib H, Hwang S, Wuelfing D, Mendes M, Holdridge M, Burke EM, Beauregard K, Zhang Y, Cleary M, Xu S, Yao X, Patel PP, Plavina T, Wilson DH, Chang L, Kaiser KM, Nattermann J, Schmidt SV, Latz E, Hrusovsky K, Mattoon D, Ball AJ. N-protein presents early in blood, dried blood and saliva during asymptomatic and symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection. Nat Commun. 2021 03 26; 12(1):1931.

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Olearo F, N?rz D, Heinrich F, Sutter JP, Roedl K, Schultze A, Wiesch JSZ, Braun P, Oestereich L, Kreuels B, Wichmann D, Aepfelbacher M, Pfefferle S, L?tgehetmann M. Handling and accuracy of four rapid antigen tests for the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 compared to RT-qPCR. J Clin Virol. 2021 04; 137:104782.

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Chhoy P, Brown CW, Amante JJ, Mercurio AM. Protocol for the separation of extracellular vesicles by ultracentrifugation from in vitro cell culture models. STAR Protoc. 2021 03 19; 2(1):100303.

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Jin R, Pettengill MA, Hartnett NL, Auerbach HE, Peiper SC, Wang Z. Commercial Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Molecular Assays: Superior Analytical Sensitivity of cobas SARS-CoV-2 Relative to NxTAG CoV Extended Panel and ID NOW COVID-19 Test. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2020 11 01; 144(11):1303-1310.

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Rogers AA, Baumann RE, Borillo GA, Kagan RM, Batterman HJ, Galdzicka MM, Marlowe EM. Evaluation of Transport Media and Specimen Transport Conditions for the Detection of SARS-CoV-2 by Use of Real-Time Reverse Transcription-PCR. J Clin Microbiol. 2020 Jul 23; 58(8).

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